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by eckesicle 4y ago
Postgres is probably the best solution for every type of data store for 95-99% of projects. The operational complexity of maintaining other attached resources far exceed the benefit they realise over just using Postgres. You don’t need a qu
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by eckesicle 4y ago
I worked at Coinbase making 140k GBP in base compensation. My SF based colleagues with the same job title were making 250k USD (so 202k GBP). We sat down one day and compared our household budgets line by line and in the end we estimated th
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by eckesicle 4y ago
Why do you assume bad faith on behalf of the EU? Maybe when they run out of things to fine firms for that don't benefit their citizens ... they'll just stop fining them ...
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by eckesicle 4y ago
> The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed in a ruling in April that "the officers reasonably believed they were acting within the law" even if his Facebook page was obviously a parody. So police officers d
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by eckesicle 4y ago
It's been a few years now but I used to work on research on this particular alternative receptor. To handwave and simplify a bit CCR5 is the dominant pathway for the virus to spread in a healthy patient. HIV tends to mutate in patients
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by eckesicle 4y ago
I'm strongly in the camp of cute names. They are memorable identifiers, nothing more. Cutesy names are greppable, meaningful names are not. 'billingmurray' Vs 'account service' Giving meaning to a service through it
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by eckesicle 4y ago
There's £2Bn worth of fivers in circulation. A note weighs 0.7grams and contains less than 0.05% tallow. That means that between one and three cows supplied the tallow necessary to produce the entire monetary supply of the country. Thi
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by eckesicle 4y ago
Obviously anecdata but I've had an EV (Jaguar I-Pace) for a year and a bit now and it is by far the best and most reliable vehicle I have ever owned. I've driven over 8000 miles in it and have not had a single issue. Contrast it t
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by eckesicle 4y ago
In the Euro 2004, Denmark and Sweden would both go on to qualify at Italy's expense if the result of the game was 2-2. Of course, the score ended up being just that towards the end of the game, and then the players on both teams just s
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by eckesicle 4y ago
No, GP is right. My firm has conducted over 50 projects in rural Africa last year, and the cost of living and transportation is most certainly inversely proportional to how developed the area is. The local options simply aren't availab
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by eckesicle 4y ago
and exactly once delivery, and exactly once delivery.
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by eckesicle 4y ago
This is such an American problem. I love visiting the US, but boy am I glad that I don't live there. Everyone here in the comments is blaming Hertz, but really the problem is that the police are just arresting people willy-nilly withou
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by eckesicle 4y ago
I'm pretty sure you're mistaken. Consumers in Scandinavia are not responsible when scammed unless they've acted with grave misjudgment or ill intent. There was even a case in the high court to cement this right in Sweden this
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by eckesicle 4y ago
I worked at Coinbase for four years, where Bazel is the build system of choice. It's so so much worse than the homegrown software it replaced. Hermetic sounds nice in theory, but doesn't actually matter and comes with a massive co
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by eckesicle 4y ago
Typically, paper comes in A0 size (841x1188mm) which is then cut in half X times to get the desired paper size, which is either eyeballed against a ruler, or measured by laser. If the operator is skilled, or the machine is well-calibrated m
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by eckesicle 4y ago
That happened to me last summer. I had to rebook cancelled flights with British Airways multiple times to get home. In the end i was out over £15000 pounds worth of flights. BA offered me vouchers valid for a year in replacement. In the end
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by eckesicle 4y ago
Tyranny of the minority. It's all over society, not just in politics. A group with a small but strong preference for a choice will force the masses into that choice, even if it's worse for the majority. It's not necessarily a
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by eckesicle 4y ago
To give you just one example as to why it would have an outsize impact on my life. All parent association and much communication from school comes over a WhatsApp group with ~60 parents in it. If I were to be excluded then my son would miss
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by eckesicle 4y ago
For all it's failures the government and courts do a good job at mediating disputes in every other aspect of our lives, so why not this one too?
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by eckesicle 4y ago
see my other comment. In short: it's not like being kicked out of a restaurant, it's like being kicked out of every restaurant.
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by eckesicle 4y ago
Your comparison falls short though, because there's not really a historical equivalent we can compare to. Being banned from social media is not like being thrown out of a pub by a bouncer. It's like being thrown out of every pub,
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by eckesicle 4y ago
Just spitballing: Then pass a law that says any company with a user count exceeding 100,000 must not prevent access or disable an account unless the user in question breaks the law on the platform. Then establish a simplified claims court,
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by eckesicle 4y ago
I live in the UK. Many of the things you mention are reasons why I would never consider making the US my permanent home.
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by eckesicle 4y ago
It's interesting to read the comments here and the debate around whether social media counts as a public square or not. Ultimately, the web, and social media, is where a majority of our citizens spend a large chunk of their time. While
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by eckesicle 4y ago
Yeah, of course this is probably the big differentiating factor. It's part selection bias, part staying healthy, part not being exposed to accident prone environments. Still though, as a lifestyle choice it's really safe.
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by eckesicle 4y ago
I've never heard of a truly successful project by these large scale consulting firms. Even the so called success stories seem ... mediocre at best. Has anyone been part of such a project at a firm like that?
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by eckesicle 4y ago
Here's an interesting factoid: The annualized mortality rate of a US soldier is ~100 per 100,000. The annualized mortality rate of the average US man between the age of 25-34 is 177 per 100,000. (It's 199 per 100k for ages 18-24).
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by eckesicle 4y ago
I just don't know enough about the subject to be able to 'divorce the subject from the mouth' confidently. Perhaps a bit unfair, but I'd rather dismiss what he says than risk being misled. It's like the opposite of
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by eckesicle 4y ago
After reading the headline my immediate reaction was that: "this scientist is going to try to make the case that PHEVs are the better choice". And of course, that's what he does. The fact is that Toyota has made a major misst
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by eckesicle 4y ago
It's not about which keys you use to copy paste, or about the speed in which you navigate your text. What the vim movements do is allow you to focus on your code without interruption. You can do everything without shifting your focus f

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